Your Funnybooks chaps Paulie, Wayne, and Tim have a delightful chat with current Avengers Academy writer, Christos Gage. There’s so much goodness in this interview, that we have to describe it with exclamation points. Marvel at how Christos calls Tim “Chip” repeatedly! Find out the startling secret of how Christos got into writing comics! Discover the Top Cow project that he’s writing that won’t be announced to everyone else until this weekend at Comic Con! Gasp as we discuss the ending of Avengers: The Initiative and the beginning of Avengers Academy! Tense up with anticipation as we discuss the film adaptation of Paradox, Christos’ first creator-owned title! And rush out to your comic shop to buy his new mini-series, Spider-Man/Fantastic Four!

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Paul and I can’t tell time.

Specifically, we can’t convert the time difference between the U.S. and the U.K.  Fortunately, Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning have mastered such pedantic concepts as time, thus affording us the opportunity chat with them one Saturday morning.

We chat about Dan’s novel work in the Warhammer 40K universe such as Gaunt’s Ghosts, his passion for Cthulhu, and a whole lot about his affection for role playing games such as Traveller.  Of course it’s a comics podcast and it’s DnA, so we talk about their origins in writing Marvel’s cosmic books and go deep, deep, deep into their current event and it’s impact on Guardians of the Galaxy and Nova…. we discuss Rocket Raccoon and even Groot and of course the big event itself… The Thanos Imperative.

Fhtagn!

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This new comic book day, we’ve got something a little different for you – an interview you have to read instead of listen to!

Novelist/comic writer/awesome dude Gregg Hurwitz has been on the show before, and we talked about all manner of cool goodness, including Vengeance of the Moon Knight, his new novel Trust No One (at the time), and the TV show V.

Nowadays, Gregg is pretty busy on tour with his new book, They’re Watching (see if he’s coming to your town here), and gearing up for production on the second season of V but, awesome guy that he is,  in the first of many interviews in the coming months on Shadowland, he spent some time chatting with us about Shadowland: Moon Knight, his new novel They’re Watching, and hints at just what may be coming up for Moon Knight.  After all, Vengeance of the Moon Knight #10 (released TODAY!) is the last issue solicited…

Read after the jump for all the awesome info!

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The X-Men are about to face their deadliest threat…Vampire A Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse!  No, that’s not right…but they are about to start a brand new ongoing series, an adjectiveless X-Men #1, written by Vampire A Go-Go and Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse novelist Victor Gischler!  Not only that, the premiere of the series kicks off a huge Marvel event known as the Curse of the Mutants, which will see the X-Men team up with Blade and others to take down the growing vampire menace in the Marvel U.  And it all starts with this week’s release of The Death of Dracula, also written by Gischler.

We sat down recently to talk to Victor Gischler about Deadpool Corps, the ending of Deadpool: Merc With A Mouth, the new X-Men series, vampires, and his growing collection of awesome novels, ranging from post-apocalyptic horror to hard-boiled crime.

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Green Arrow #1 comes out this week.  To celebrate, we have Green Arrow writer J.T. Krul!

In this week’s New Comic Book Day Interview, we chat with J.T. (call him J.T.  Never call him Jeffery.  He’ll kill you if you call him Jeffery) about his experience working as a production assistant on Seinfeld and his work at Aspen on books such as Fathom and Soulfire.  We reminisce about Michael Turner.  We discuss J.T.’s creator-owned Mindfield and what he’s got in store for Green Arrow.  Most important we learn how to pronounce J.T.’s last name!

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While we love all of our interviews, every once in a while, we here at Funnybooks have an interview experience that far surpasses anything we expected.  Today’s New Comic Book Day Interview with Top Cow publisher Filip Sablik is far and away one of our best.

We talk with Sablik about everything Top Cow – overcoming predispositions and delays, successes and failures in trying to bring in new readers, the rising costs of comic books, media properties, all of their current titles, and, of course, the upcoming Artifacts crossover.  We don’t shy away from the tough topics on this one, and Sablik was frank and honest the entire time.

Whether you’re a Top Cow fan or not, this is definitely going to be one of the most unique comic books interviews you’ve ever heard!

Don’t miss it!

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David Petersen, the immensely talented “arter/writist” of Mouse Guard, joins Aron, Paul, and Wayne for an depth conversation of such mousey goodness that it can barely be contained by mere digital media.  Subjects ranging from Petersen’s all-new Legends of the Guard, why the books are “that shape,”  The Mouse Guard Role Playing Game, Mouse Guard: The Motion Picture, and even Mouse Guard crossovers.

It’s crazy awesome and it’s all right here.

Watch out for weasels.

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In this week’s interview, we chat with Ron Marz, creator of the crab-mask-wearing Green Lanterm, Kyle Rayner.  Ron is the current writer of Top Cow’s Witchblade, Magdalena, and Velocity.  We talk to him about stuffing women into refrigerators and all those artifacts in the Top Cow-niverse!

It’s an awesome primer we have for Artifacts.  Check it out!

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Fred Van Lente is a tease.

Seriously, the writer of such books as Iron Man: Legacy, Incredible Hercules, Marvel Zombies, Amazing and Web of Spider-Man teases all kinds of hot, gooey awesomeness in his interview with Paul.  He’s got lots of stories in the pipeline at Marvel and he talks all about ‘em in this belated New Comic Book Day edition of Funnybooks.

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It’s been a couple of weeks since we talked about new books, so settle in for our epic discussion of the books that have come since Free Comic Book Day.  Aron, Paul, Wayne, Jonathan, and Tim all got up extra early so that we could cram in some extra awesome into this week’s show.

• White trash
• Pull lists and awkward moments
• War of the Supermen update
  • War of the Supermen #1
  • War of the Superman #2
• World War Hulks update
  • Hulk #22
  • Incredible Hulk #609
• BRIGHTEST DAY update
  • Brightest Day #1
  • The Flash #2
  • Green Lantern Corps #47
  • Birds of Prey #1
  • Titans: Villains for Hire
  • Booster Gold #32
  • Justice League: Generation Lost #1
• SECOND COMING Update
  • X-Force #26
  • Uncanny 524
  • New Mutants #13
  • Revelations: Hellbound
• RETURN OF BRUCE WAYNE update
  • Red Robin #12
  • Batman and Robin #12
  • Return of Bruce Wayne #1
• SIEGE UPDATE
  • Siege #4
  • The Sentry: Fallen Sun
  • The New Avengers Finale
  • Avengers: The Initiative #35
• WHAT IF WE WERE WRITING SIEGE?

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